ition.” She shows through her essay how women are treated and how she feels they should be treated. She is saying that women should not be branded in their minds as the weaker sex. They should have some intellect because in life it will always govern. In my opinion, Wollstonecraft took a brave step. Certainly this essay was a great accomplishment for her. She wrote in a time when very little or nothing was expected from women.In the Neoclassic era, the church was a symbol of great divinity. The church was an institution that set many strict standards on society. In Blake’s poem, “The Garden of Love”, we see the church as the sublime figure that enforces religious and social morals on the people. It is evident that Blake is writing from personal experience. He says that he went into the garden and there stood a chapel. It was built on the fields on which he used to play. (Imperceptibly, the game of love.) The doors of the chapel were very distressing. “Thou shalt not” was written above the doors of the chapel. It is unmistakable that the church was repressing him sexually. Because many people were sexually repressed at this time, love became a cemetery. The standards set by the church made it impossible for anyone to play the games of love.Unquestionably, the Romantic Period was not just an age of reason. It was a time of discovery and lost innocence. More and more poets were discovering and exploring aspects of life and more profoundly, death. William Wordsworth can be noted as a poet of nature. Throughout much of his work, we find that he devotes time to concentrating on natural images. I postulate these images of nature allow us to envision the death and rebirth of nature itself. In a sense, Wordsworth shows through his poetry that life can be eternal. In “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,” he describes, through imagery, a young woman who has experienced terrible...
